Dark Shadows

by Harry M. Benshoff

Book Overview

Explores the cultural, industrial, formal, and generic contexts of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as a precursor to today's popular gothic media franchises.

While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional Collinsport, Maine,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334393
• ISBN13: 9780814334393
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 7.2"